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Comment: The real cost of getting gold

Movie Camera
Skyrocketing mineral prices are fuelling a mining boom for which few developing nations are prepared, says William Laurance
 

Aggression written in the shape of a man's face

00:01 20 August 2008 3 comments

Shipwreck fuels invasion of unwanted species

01:00 20 August 2008 2 comments

First red blood cells grown in the lab

19:30 19 August 2008 3 comments

Polygamy is the key to a long life

17:26 19 August 2008 51 comments

FBI admits missteps, but defends anthrax probe

16:50 19 August 2008 2 comments

Personalised maps show the view from the street

16:30 19 August 2008 4 comments

Stem cells from menstrual blood save limbs

12:45 19 August 2008 1 comment

Gluttony - not laziness - to blame for obesity

11:15 19 August 2008 17 comments

Merck catches more flak over dangerous drug

10:15 19 August 2008 1 comment
Iron superconductors: Breaking all the rules

Iron superconductors: Breaking all the rules

Magnetism was once considered the enemy, but it could prove to be the key to superconductivity. Catherine Zandonella investigates
 
Comment: China's green journey

China's green journey

China may look like a carbon-guzzling monster, but there's a clean-tech superpower struggling to get out, says Changhua Wu
 
Gorilla

Animals and death

Gorillas and other animals appear to grieve - but do they understand death?
 
Sewage pipe

Sewage farming

As water becomes ever more scarce, much of the world's food could not be grown at all without wastewater from urban sewers
 
McCain and Obama

Space politics

The US presidential hopefuls turn their attention to space
 
GLAST

What's in a name

NASA's GLAST telescope will be renamed after a contest yielding more than 12,000 suggestions
 
Climate myths: Global warming stopped in 1998

Still warming?

Many claim that global warming stopped in 1998, and the world is now cooling. Is it true?
 
Are some things best left unsaid?

Censoring science

How much control should journals exact over the sort of science they publish, asks Lawrence Krauss
 
Just an illusion: still images that move

Moving pictures

These self-animating images are static, but seem to move
 
last word transient taste

Not to my taste

Why do pine nuts alter some people's sense of taste?
 
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